Simple baking recipes for many housewives are a real lifesaver.
With their help, without unnecessary expenditure of time and energy, you can do a lot of tasty things, for example, bake apricot pies.
Tasty, juicy and fragrant. Forward?
A simple apricot pie - general cooking principles
Apricots are used in cakes in the form of sweet mincemeat, placed on top or bottom, or simply mixed with dough. Fruits use fresh, frozen, canned. There are many recipes with dried apricots - dried apricots, but that's another story.
In order not to spend much time on baking, yeast is bypassed. They mainly use quick dough on kefir, shortbread, biscuit. You can buy puff pastry in the store, it also turns out tasty and simple with it. Cakes form closed, open, filled with sweet masses. In closed cakes on the upper layer, holes are made for steam to escape.
Apricots are often combined with cottage cheese, almonds, apples, other fruits and berries. For aroma put vanilla, cinnamon. Before baking, you can grease the top with an egg so that gloss appears on the finished product. You can use only the yolk, in which case the color of the crust will be brighter.
Simple cake with apricots from biscuit dough
A variant of a simple apricot pie, which will require a minimal set of products. It is important to have a mixer, with it preparing a dough will take several minutes. Immediately heat the oven 180 ° C.
Ingredients
• a glass of sugar;
• a glass of flour;
• 4 eggs;
• 2 pinches of a cultivator;
• 200-300 grams of apricots.
Cooking
1. Pour sugar into a bowl, break eggs to it and whisk together with a mixer at maximum speed for about five minutes.
2. As soon as the mass becomes furry and white, add the sifted flour with a cultivator.
3. Now the dough is stirred very slowly and literally for five seconds.
4. Pour it into any shape. If it is silicone, then you can not lubricate. A metal container is passed with a piece of oil.
5. Throw apricot halves on top.
6. Send the cake for baking. On average, it will take from 20 to 30 minutes. Check for a dry match.
Apricot Pie: A Simple Recipe for Vegetable Oil
Another version of the apricot pie. The easiest recipe for batter in vegetable oil. The crumb is juicy, tender. We do not lose time and immediately turn on the oven at 200 degrees.
Ingredients
• three eggs;
• sugar 0.2 kg;
• 8 apricots;
• flour 150 grams;
• 150 ml of oil;
• 150 ml sour cream;
• 5 grams of cultivator.
Cooking
1. We break all prescription eggs into a bowl. Whisk for a minute.
2. Add sugar, at maximum speed of the mixer beat the mass until foam.
3. Next comes the sour cream in the dough, and then the vegetable oil.
4. Mix the flour, baking cultivator and sift directly into the dough.
5. Stir, pour into a pre-smeared mold.
6. Divide the apricots into halves, scatter on top. No need to deepen, they will fail themselves.
7. Bake in the oven for about half an hour. Cool, sprinkle with powder or cinnamon. It can be greased with apricot jam.
Simple Kefir Dough Apricot Pie
A wonderful version of a simple apricot pie, which can be cooked in the oven or in a slow cooker. But in the second option, you will have to proportionally reduce the number of ingredients. Fruits can be taken fresh or canned, it turns out delicious in any form.
Ingredients
• 2 eggs;
• 2 glasses of kefir;
• 4 tablespoons of oil;
• 2 glasses of sugar;
• flour 3 cups;
• 1 tsp soda;
• 0.4 kg of apricots.
Cooking
1. We immediately take the mixer, as it greatly reduces the preparation time of the dough. Turn on the oven for 200 and set a large bowl in front of us.
2. Throw eggs and sugar, beat for a minute.
3. Pour kefir and put soda into it, let it go through the reaction, that is, wait a few seconds and whisk it again for a minute.
4. Add vegetable oil, a little salt and you can throw a pinch of vanilla so that the aroma of the cake is deeper. Beat another minute.
5. It remains only to add flour and stir with the same mixer.
6. Cut the apricots into slices.
7. Now you can pour the dough into a mold, lay out pieces of fruit.
8. Or we put everything together in a cup, stir and pour.
9. Bake until golden brown. Check the readiness with a toothpick. After the puncture, it should remain dry.
Apricot pie: a simple recipe with a ready-made dough
This is perhaps the laziest apricot pie recipe that needs puff pastry. For all its simplicity, baking is delicious. Better to use yeast dough.
Ingredients
• 1 pack of dough;
• 0.5 kg of apricots;
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 3 tablespoons of sugar;
• 1 spoon of flour;
• egg.
Cooking
1. Take out the dough in advance, but do not let it soften and thaw completely. Roll out and transfer the layer to any mold.
2. We cut off all the hanging edges with a knife, but do not throw it away. We cut ribbons of small width from them.
3. Mix sugar with vanilla, cut apricots into slices. You can use canned fruits in this recipe, but before that it is good to express the syrup.
4. Sprinkle the bottom of the cake with flour, you can take starch.
5. Spread the apricots, sprinkle with a mixture of sugar and vanilla on top.
6. Cover the cake with strips of scraps of puff pastry. It is not necessary to completely cover or lay out a strict grill.
7. Grease the future masterpiece with an egg, oven until rosy color.
A simple apricot and almond pie
Another open apricot pie option. A simple recipe from puff pastry and grated almonds with a very tender filling based on condensed milk. It can be replaced with a mixture of sour cream and sugar, it will also turn out delicious.
Ingredients
• 0.5 kg of apricots;
• 1 layer of dough;
• 150 grams of condensed milk;
• 50 grams of grated almonds;
• 1 egg;
• a spoonful of flour.
Cooking
1. The rolled layer is placed in a mold. We make sides and cut off all unnecessary.
2. At the bottom of the pie, make a few punctures and put the cake in the oven. We bake for about ten minutes, set 180 degrees.
3. This time is enough. To cook the filling. Wash the apricots, halves.
4. Mix the egg with flour and condensed milk.
5. We take out the cake, put the halves of apricots on it.
6. Pour a mixture of condensed milk with flour and ground almonds. By the way, starch can be added instead of flour.
7. Bake for about twenty minutes. We are guided in appearance. Before slicing the dessert, you need to cool it well.
French-style clafuti apricot pie
Clafouti is a French pie that resembles a casserole in some ways. The dessert is very tender, light and sweet. Despite all the advantages, it is very simple and easy to prepare. Sugar is preferably brown.
Ingredients
• 6 apricots;
• 200 ml of kefir (fermented baked milk, yogurt);
• 4 eggs;
• 0.1 kg of flour;
• 1 pinch of vanilla;
• 50 gr. oils;
• 70 gr. Sahara.
Cooking
1. Mix flour and sugar in a bowl, add vanillin.
2. Pour kefir or other sour milk product at room temperature.
3. Immediately break the eggs.
4. Take a whisk and beat everything together for a couple of minutes.
5. Lastly, pour in the melted and cooled oil. In this recipe, it is better not to replace it with margarine, it will turn out not so tasty.
6. Apricots are sorted into halves. If canned fruits are used, then you need to let the syrup drain, you can slightly dry with paper towels.
7. Rub the form with a piece of oil, sprinkle flour on the bottom and sides.
8. Pour the dough, lay out the halves of the fruit in any order.
9. Put the dessert at 200 degrees and immediately reduce the temperature to 170. Klafuti with apricots is baked for about 20-25 minutes. It must be remembered that the cake will get the final consistency after cooling.
Apricot pie: a simple recipe for a slow cooker
A wonderful option for quick and easy baking for tea. For this simple apricot pie you will need fresh or frozen fruits, preserves or canned compote fruits will not work.
Ingredients
• 10 g of oil;
• 4 eggs;
• a glass of sugar;
• a glass of flour;
• 2 tablespoons of starch;
• 5 grams of cultivator;
• a pinch of salt;
• 0.3 kg of apricots.
Cooking
1. We combine eggs and sugar in a large bowl, the volume of which will allow the mass to increase several times.
2. Submerge the mixer and beat at high speeds for about seven minutes, add a pinch of salt.
3. Combine the flour with a cultivator, pour into the dough.
4. Grease the shape of the multicooker with butter.
5. Divide apricots into halves and roll each one in starch.
6. Pour the dough into a slow cooker, lay out apricots powdered with starch. You can deepen the fruit a little.
7. Close, set the baking mode for an hour.
8. Open, check for readiness.
9. Take out the cake on the wire rack, cool. For beauty, you can sprinkle with powder, glaze or grease with jam.
A simple apricot pie - tips and tricks
• So that the bottom of the pie is not damp from the juicy fruit filling, often the layer is sprinkled with starch or flour. And few people know that for the same purpose you can use dry concentrate for cooking jelly. When mixed with apricot juice, an amazing filling will be obtained. Also, in dry jelly, you can roll halves of fruit before laying in the dough.
• The filling for the pie will be softer if the skin is removed from apricots first. To do this, the fruit is placed in a colander and lowered for several seconds in boiling water. Then the contents of the colander are poured with ice water. After this, the skin parted well with fruit.
• Often almonds are added to apricot pies. It can be replaced with seeds of the same fruit. There are apricot varieties in which they are sweet. It is only necessary to break the nucleolus with a hammer, then dry.
• If the apricots are sweet, then it is not necessary to add all the recipe sugar to the filling, you can reduce its quantity.
